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The human ancestor we barely understand

Homo heidelbergensis lived hundreds of thousands of years ago during a critical phase of human evolution. Fossil evidence ...

773,000-Year-Old Fossils Add a New Twist to Humanity’s Deep Origins

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...
Yahoo

Wooden spears found in a German coal mine could change the history of human hunting

This 2014 photo provided by researchers shows a set of wooden hunting spears estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen (Volker ...
Hartford Courant

Ancient wooden spears may have been wielded by Neanderthals, study suggests

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the ...
Phys.org

Neanderthal DNA could be the cause of some modern brain malformations

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...
WTEN

Ancient wooden spears found in Germany may have been wielded by Neanderthals, a new study suggests

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden ...